Pages

Friday, May 27, 2011

Kanye West is an artist whose career has an amazing amount of content that puts his identity and his therapy as the content. This video is a little difficult to watch because of the level of immaturatiy that he portrays of himself. The clip ends with an amazing scene in the club's bathroom showing Kanye cutting out part of his inner-something (shadow) and he watches it use a little knife to slice itself open and then die on the counter. It is very much a modern day adult fairytale.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

This song has permeated Pop culture with a phenominal amount of momentum. It's very accesible and no doubt an indication of the current 'Spirit of the Age'. I particularly like the video. There is a shadow character that becomes obscured by a powder that is upset. In the context of individuation, I'm excited to see such a creative representation of the shadow. The cups being thrown against the wall are also a powerful image of the counter-intuitive feeling of breaking the will towards integration of the psyche or as a physical transferrence of anger to manifest the feelings of destruction.

I'm using optics and projection to link the joining of the shadow archetype and individuation process... I expect to do some writing about it soon, but I had the opportunity to get some images together to illustrate it conceptually. Enjoy!

In his book The English Face, the late Sir David Piper asserts that a silhouette "is not reall a portrait at all; in its basic form it is made by tracing the shadow-- it is not merely a portrait of one's shadow, it is virtually the actual shadow, stilled and fixed on paper.

About Me

Brodie Lindsay is a character name of my public self. The Animus Project is an exploration of various artworks and mediums that example the individuation process in part or whole. In it's own right, the blog serves as a seperate artwork that strings together carefully chosen images that embody stages of individuation and collectively illustrate the concept. Frieze Tile is a design and design theory blog. Sophia Project is another blog that I put thoughts and images that I find that may not fit within the definition of the other two blogs.